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1.3
Adding color
Previous section should allow you to obtain a structure of your poster, but you may like
to add some color to the poster. This can be achieved in beamerposter package, because
you can define any color using the rgb scale, just put \definecolor{colorname}{rgb}{r,g,b}
in the preamble. The r,g,b are numbers within 0 and 1, they express the amount of red,
green and blue you add to create each color. For example, \definecolor{lightpurple}
{rgb}{0.8,0.3,0.7}.You can now obtain any word in color by typing any word. Colors
can also be defined by other scales, such as gray scale.
You may also want to consider packages color and xcolor which provide access to
several kinds of colors, tints, shades, tones of arbitrary colors.
1.4
Obtaining smaller or larger size posters
The option scale=number for making posters from A0 to A4 is easily accessible in the
beamerposter package. Thus, you can always rescale the poster to smaller or larger page
size. For completeness, Table 3 lists different page sizes from A0 to A4. For different
page sizes, you may have to re-position the textblock coordinates accordingly.
A0
A1
A2
A3
A4
w(in)
33.07
23.39
16.54
11.69
8.26
h(in)
46.77
33.07
23.39
16.53
11.69
w(mm)
840
594
420
297
210
h(mm)
1188
840
594
420
297
w(ft)
2.76
1.95
1.38
0.97
0.69
h(ft)
3.90
2.76
1.95
1.38
0.97
Table 3: Width and height of different page sizes.
2 Beamer themes
Beamer class supports the concept of a theme, with which you can alter the appearance
of your poster, such as the color of block. It is this feature that truly separates the
beamerposter package from the a0poster class. Possible beamer themes are listed in alphabetical order: AnnArbor, Antibes, Bergen, Berkeley, Berlin, Boadilla, CambridgeUS,
Copenhagen, Darmstadt, default, Dresden, Frankfurt, Goettingen, Hannover, Ilmenau,
JuanLesPins, Luebeck, Madrid, Malmoe, Marburg, Montpellier, PaloAlto, Pittsburgh,
Rochester, Singapore, Szeged, Warsaw.
While the code for producing Figure 3 uses the beamer theme of Frankfurt, an example
of blocks created by \usetheme{Singapore} is exhibited in Figure 5.
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